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Andrew Mitchell

Andrew Mitchell has been deeply involved with entrepreneurship education and business-university collaboration since 1999 and has been at the centre of or has personally raised over €10 million of industry, government and HEI enterprise funding.

Headline: Educator
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.climatechangecentre.org.uk/
Industries: Cleantech, Computing, Information Technology, Internet, Media, Mobile
Skills: Business, Entrepreneurship, Event planning
Location: Edinburgh
Groups: CfEL at Cambridge, Global Entrepreneurship Competition 2010 - bizBarcelona, Smartcamp London
Visas: EU, China
Interested in: Advising startups, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Investing in projects, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Sharing my projects, Supporting my investments, Trading services
Tags: Cleantech, climate change, edinburgh, entrepreneurship education, greentech, incubation, informatics, informatics ventures, low carbon economy., startups
Schools: The Robert Gordon University

FEATURED STARTUP

Informatics Ventures

Informatics Ventures Informatics Ventures

Supporting and inspiring globally ambitious software companies in Scotland

  • Startup type: University Spin-out
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Growth

FULL BIO

Andrew Mitchell Business Manager, Edinburgh Centre on Climate Change.

Andrew Mitchell joined the Edinburgh Centre on Climate Change (ECCC) in Spring 2011, an innovation centre bringing entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders, policy makers and academics together to deliver the “low carbon economy”. Andrew is an award-winning programme manager with 18 years experience in the ICT sector and 11 years experience in business-university collaboration and commercialisation. His career has been within small business, FTSE100 corporations and world leading research-intensive universities; internationally across Scotland, England, the USA and Australia.

From 2007-2011 he was a key member of the commercialisation team at Informatics in Edinburgh; Europe’s largest and the UK’s top rated Computer Science research department. With a special focus on entrepreneurship education, Andrew has facilitated over €10M of public and private funding to support startups and spinouts. Establishing and building Informatics Ventures over these four years, he delivered 27,817 hours of executive education via 65 workshops and events to 980 entrepreneurs from 617 companies. This helped to build a Scottish Informatics ecosystem of 1,147 nascent-entrepreneurs, serial-entrepreneurs and investors, who collectively carried out 5,554 focussed “elevator pitches”.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Edinburgh Centre on Climate Change
Position: Business Manager
Time period: May 2011 - Present

Employer: Informatics Ventures / University of Edinburgh
Position: Project Leader
Time period: June 2007 - April 2011

Employer: University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Position: Programme Manager
Time period: February 2006 - April 2007

Employer: Cambridge-MIT Institute
Position: Programme Manager
Time period: May 2002 - January 2006

Employer: British Telecommunications PLC
Position: Modernising Government Specialist
Time period: March 1999 - May 2002

EDUCATION

University: The Robert Gordon University
Time period: 1996 - 2000
Degree: Technology and Business, BSc

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